This volume contains two works by Emily Post: her best known work, entitled "Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home", but most commonly referred to as "Etiquette," and a relatively little known novel entitled "The Title Market," which spoofs her own work on etiquette. The ebook has been reformatted to meet current ebook standards such as having an active table of contents.

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Trendspotting Oh, Behave! From grandes dames of good behavior and modern advocates of fabulousness, manners make a comeback. "Emily Post is the literary It Girl of the moment, and she has Joan Didion to thank for it. Despite the fact that she's been dead for nearly fifty years, Post and her seminal guide to good manners, Etiquette, have come up in nearly every review of Didion's best-selling new memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. Critics can't resist mentioning that in the dark days after her husband's death in late 2003, Didion found great solace in the "Funerals" chapter of Etiquette's first edition, published in 1922. Psychologists, poets, and philosophers could theorize all they wanted about the stages of grief and how to cope, but in Post, Didion found the reasoned voice that really offered relief. It was the relief of ritual -- of an established code of conduct that could safely transport her from one difficult moment to the next, without the burden of hand-wringing analysis."

About the Author

Emily Price Post was born in October of 1872 or 1873 in Baltimore, Maryland to Bruce and Josephine Lee Price. She was homeschooled and, later, attended finishing school in New York City. In 1892, she married Edwin Main Post, a banker from a widely known family in the social circles of Long Island. The couple had two sons, Edwin M. Post, Jr. and Bruce Price Post, who died in 1927. Subsequently, Mr. and Mrs. Post were divorced. As well as Etiquette, which was in its eighty-ninth printing at the time of her death, Emily Post wrote other works, including fiction and short stories. In addition, she wrote a cookbook, The Emily Post Cook Book. In 1946, Emily Post founded the Emily Post Institute. She died on September 25, 1960, and her name has lived on in the public domain as synonymous with etiquette.

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This is the original 1922 edition of Emily Post's Etiquette. Almost all of the manners and propriety that were appropriate back then could hold true today. I enjoyed it cover to cover, but my only complaint is the very small font size. The book could have been thickened to allow for a standard sized font. But still quite enjoyable reading. Emily no doubt would have been horrified at what passes for social interactions today. Emails? Texting? "Social" media? Heavens!

This is the original text, but not the original format. The table of contents is not functional, and the index refers to paragraph numbers that are not included so that's not functional either. Unless you make your own notes on the pages numbers for each of the chapters you will have to flick through the book every time that you want to locate something. If you can manage that, the content is surprisingly modern and easy to read, with explicit instructions as to how things are done in a grand house, and examples demonstrating the importance of not exceeding your experience.

Considering this book was written about fifty years ago, some of the information, particularly about how a wife should act, was hysterical. Granted, a good chunk of the book's information is still relevant and applicable. Good manners are still good manners for the most part. However there are also pieces that had me rolling on the floor. Interesting read.